Brand new house with bt fibre to home can we switch?

Joodee

Hi our new build house has fibre to the home, to a box in the wardrobe, currently we gat broadband from BT costing £36 a month ca we change to another provider using this fibre to home connection?

onomatopoeia99

Joodee wrote: »

Hi our new build house has fibre to the home, to a box in the wardrobe, currently we gat broadband from BT costing £36 a month ca we change to another provider using this fibre to home connection?

Yes. What you cannot get is another poundshop grade provider.

Here is a list (not complete) of some of the providers you can get : https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fttp-providers

The_Fat_Controller

I don't think the "yes" answer is going to be that easy.

Has your developer done a deal with BT for a certain period ?

Put your address into any availability checker and you'll get your answer.

I think re-sellers of BT FTTP are few and far between.

JJ_Egan

More due to take up Openreach FTTP by all acounts though .
Likewise cannot see any ISP with FTTP willing to go down the cheap route .

iniltous

The_Fat_Controller wrote: »

I don't think the "yes" answer is going to be that easy.

Has your developer done a deal with BT for a certain period ?

Put your address into any availability checker and you'll get your answer.

I think re-sellers of BT FTTP are few and far between.

There is no such thing as an exclusive deal between the developer and ‘BT’, because the FTTP infrastructure isn’t ‘BT’s’ to do a deal with, its Openreach, and Openreach have to make their products open to anyone and everyone who wants to use them...it’s the usual uniformed , urban myth that you can only get ‘BT’ , even those who caveat it with ‘initially only BT’ are plain wrong, developers may well poorly advise customers by saying ‘ the home has BT FTTP, when they should say ‘the home has Openreach FTTP and several ISP’s can provide service over it’, but that’s a failure of the developer not correctly informing the purchaser.
The OP has already been provided the correct information, that is other ISP’s are available but not the budget end of the market, why they don’t want to offer FTTP over OR when it’s available to them, is a question for them, not BT or OR

onomatopoeia99

The_Fat_Controller wrote: »

I think re-sellers of BT FTTP are few and far between.

"re-sellers" is the wrong word. The ISPs listed on the page I provided are not white label providers (like John Lewis broadband vs Plusnet) but offer their own services using Openreach infrastructure for some of the backhaul.

Highland76

Joodee wrote: »

Hi our new build house has fibre to the home, to a box in the wardrobe, currently we gat broadband from BT costing £36 a month ca we change to another provider using this fibre to home connection?

As others have already said, you won't find bargain basement providers on Openreach FTTP, you're best off sticking with BT Retail if you want the cheapest service. Otherwise if you want to move for better support, then consider Zen, IDNet or AAISP but they ain't cheap.

Chino

jeepjunkie wrote: »

Why on earth would you want to change? FTTP is the holy grail and after ADSL/WISP/virgin in previous houses it is very good value.

I would imagine because, for many people, the 330 Mbps or so download speeds that FTTP provides are far in excess of what many require and certainly not worth paying a premium for (although if the £36 per month that the OP mentions includes line rental that's pretty good value but I know I'd rather pay £26 per month in exchange for only getting 30 Mbps).

JJ_Egan

They also supply cheaper 150 meg and you might negotiate 80 meg.

BarGin

JJ_Egan wrote: »

They also supply cheaper 150 meg and you might negotiate 80 meg.

I have BT fibre to the premises and pay £23.99 a month for 80:20 Mbps.

The_Fat_Controller

Come to Thailand, we have 100/100 fibre for £17 a month !